Metal working – Method of mechanical manufacture – Electrical device making
Patent
1982-04-13
1984-12-25
Goldberg, Howard N.
Metal working
Method of mechanical manufacture
Electrical device making
29759, 414 80, H01R 4304, B23P 1900
Patent
active
044894880
ABSTRACT:
A substrate-lead subassembly (34S), having relatively fragile lead retaining hooks (68) which project from opposite sides of the subassembly outward beyond the edges of an opening (38) in a housing (36) of a housing subassembly (32) in which the hooks are to be received, is partially assembled into the housing in an initial assembling station (80). More specifically, as the housing subassembly (32) is advanced horizontally into the initial assembling station (80) above the substrate-lead subassembly (34S), opposite sides of the housing (36) are released in sequence so that the housing subassembly drops by gravity through a series of controlled tipping and downward vertical movements to receive the lead-retaining hooks (68) on one side of the substrate-lead subassembly (34S) in the housing with outer ends (70) of the hooks in seated interlocking engagement with an inner support ledge (52) of the housing. Assembly of the substrate-lead subassembly (34S) into the housing (36), including seating of the lead-retaining hooks (68) on the opposite side of the substrate-lead subassembly (34S) on another inner support ledge (52) of the housing, is accomplished in subsequent seating stations (82 and 84). Severing of leads (56) of the substrate-lead subassembly (34S) from connector strap portions (74) and support rails (76), is accomplished in sequential shearing stations (86), to produce a completed attenuator assembly (30). The attenuator assembly (30) then is loaded in a tubular magazine (88) in a magazine loading station (90) which includes an automatic magazine feeding mechanism (342).
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Arbes Carl J.
AT&T - Technologies, Inc.
Bosben D. D.
Goldberg Howard N.
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